BonitaSoft Reports Record Growth in 2012

Open Source BPM leader doubles in size across the board – in
revenues, customers, partnerships, employment

February 14, 2013 10:45 AM Eastern Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BonitaSoft,
the leader in open source business process management (BPM), today
announced that it continues to experience significant growth and
acceptance of its solutions worldwide, more than doubling its annual
revenues, customers, partnerships and employment in 2012.

“BonitaSoft has done well in this regard and is
a good fit for many organizations seeking a quick and powerful way to
get started with BPM.”

The company signed 260 new customers in 2012, bringing the total to 525.
Growth was particularly strong in software subscription packs, with 156
new subscription customers added in 2012, a 134 percent increase over
2011. With commercial customers in 61 countries and open source
deployments in 193 countries, Bonita Open Solution surpassed 2 million
downloads by the end of 2012.

The company added more than 40 employees in 2012, increasing global
staffing to more than 100. The company more than doubled the size of its
R&D team, continuing its commitment to customers and innovation. It also
made significant investments in Europe, Latin America and North America
sales, marketing and customer care teams.

Launched in June 2009, BonitaSoft has continued to experience strong
growth across a wide array of industries and geographies. Growth was
especially robust in North America, which experienced an almost 400
percent revenue increase year over year, and in the financial services
and public sectors.

Recent customers include MathCraft,
a provider of security software and services for corporate, government
and military organizations; Teach
for America, an organization that works in partnership with
communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing the
challenges of poverty; United
Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPC), a writer and
servicer of property and casualty insurance; Credit
Agricole, the world’s sixth-largest bank by total assets; and Michelin,
a designer, developer and marketer of Michelin tourism products and
digital services.

BonitaSoft officials cited the increasing importance of BPM in today’s
enterprise environments as the major driver of the company’s continued
growth.

“Businesses are looking for ways to improve operational efficiency at an
affordable price. BonitaSoft products and services allow them to do
that,” said Miguel Valdés Faura, BonitaSoft CEO and co-founder. “Our
mission has been to stay laser focused on democratizing the BPM market –
and our efforts are paying off. Companies are starting with small
department-level projects, proving success, and moving to make BPM
ubiquitous in their organization. We are excited to help more companies
realize their BPM journey in 2013.”

Acceptance of BonitaSoft’s solutions also was reflected in its receipt
of industry awards in 2012. The Bonita Open Solution won the Market
Award, given out by OW2, the open source community for
infrastructure software. BonitaSoft also received the “Next
Generation” award from Syntec Numerique and Ernst & Young, and was
honored by InfoWorld with a second consecutive “Bossie
Award,” signifying excellence in business-oriented open source
software.

Bonita Open Solution is a comprehensive business process management
suite that enables organizations of any size to model, automate and
improve processes quickly and easily.

“A business process management suite must be elegantly designed to
benefit both process developers and users,” said Research Manager Carl
Lehmann of 451 Research. “BonitaSoft has done well in this regard and is
a good fit for many organizations seeking a quick and powerful way to
get started with BPM.”

About BonitaSoftBonitaSoft democratizes business process
management (BPM) by bringing a flexible yet powerful BPM suite to
organizations of all sizes and industries. BonitaSoft and its open
source community deliver an unmatched ecosystem of connectors for nearly
any application and/or system. With BonitaSoft, organizations can model,
automate, and optimize process workflows in Finance, Human Resources,
Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, E-Government, and more. As the world's
fastest-growing BPM provider, BonitaSoft has more than 1,750,000
downloads, 500 customers, and a community of over 40,000 contributors.

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